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Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Trenton: Court Supports Back Pay

In a ruling that supported the awarding of back pay, the State Supreme Court yesterday struck down the state's 1859 ''no work, no pay'' law. In a case involving prison guards, a labor arbitrator awarded back pay to union members who did not receive overtime as stipulated in their contract. The state resisted, citing the ''no work, no pay'' law. In the majority opinion, Justice James R. Zazzali, left, called the law an ''outdated and outmoded anachronism.''